As part of our Creative Schools Programme the pupils from the senior room took part in a sound workshop with Ed Devane today. Ed is an Irish multidisciplinary artist working primarily with sound. The children completed several activities throughout the day which included finding electro magnetic signals, working with a contact microphone to listen to sound vibrations, making recordings using an a digital audio recorder with various sounds from around the classroom. The class really enjoyed the day and are looking forward to the next stage of the workshop in early May.

Ed Devane

Website – www.eddevane.com

Instagram – ed_devane

Clíona, Ellen, Amy, Megan and Jamie took part in the Instrumental Music section of Scór. Here is a video of the tunes we played – The Hills of Tara and the Deers’ March. We represented South Mayo in the County Final at Breaffy. Congrats to Tavrane NS, Kilkelly who were the overall winners.

Djembe drums originated in Africa. They are made with a wooden shell and a head made from animal hide, usually it belongs to a goat.  Lukasz came to our school to teach us about the djembe and others drums. We played the drums and sang songs. We had lots of fun. We made the video in school.  Evan from fourth class is speaking as Mr. Turtle and the presenter is me, Clíona, from sixth class.

Here we are playing our Christmas carols – Away in a Manger, The little Drummer Boy and Silent Night.

Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year.

Here are some pictures Thomas took of the first snow we had last week.   Click the play button below to hear us sing ‘Silent Night’ and play tin whistle, guitar, violin and keyboard.

Snow at school.

Sunrise at School.

Our school yard covered in snow.

In February 2011 we performed with the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar.  We were practising since the previous October and here is a video of the performance. The video is an edited version (50 mins) of the official DVD which is over 2 hours long and available from www.cboi.ie.  We hope you enjoy it.

Singing ‘Away in a Manger’ with Cloghans Hill N.S in Roundfort Church for the Parish Carol Service.

Click the play button below to hear us sing ‘Away in a Manger’

Hear us sing this and other carols at Carras Church on Christmas Eve.

Irish Dancing classes take place in school every Monday from 3pm to 4pm.  Mrs. Ann Hussey (087 6252929) and her daughter Ruth (087 6724804) are both excellent instructors who aim to give every child who attends the opportunity and the support to enjoy a lifetime of Irish Dancing.

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration.  In this video the pupils keep different beats with various percussion instruments.

Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes are lightweight, hollow, color-coded, plastic tubes, tuned to musical pitches by length. They are used as musical instruments in the percussion family.